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In response to
"Mauritius?"
by
ty97
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Maybe it's one of these?
Posted by
con_carne
Aug 10 '09, 14:45
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The largest atolls by total area (lagoon plus reef and dry land) are (information mostly from [1]):
* Saya de Malha Bank, Western Indian Ocean (35000 km�) (without separate North Bank), submerged, least depth 7 m,
* Lansdowne Bank, west of New Caledonia (21000 km�), submerged, least depth 3.7 m [2]
* Great Chagos Bank (12642 km�, land area only 4.5 km�)
* Reed Bank, Spratly Islands (8866 km�), submerged, least depth 9 m
* Macclesfield Bank, South China Sea (6448 km�), submerged, least depth 9.2 m
* North Bank (Ritchie Bank, north of Saya de Malha Bank) (5800 km�), submerged, least depth
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